Publications
Books
Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality
2017 Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality (co-authored with Elijah Siegler), University of Chicago Press, 326 pages.
2023 Mengdao Huashan 《夢道華山：全球道教與現代靈性的困境》。(HKU Press, Open Access. [Chinese edition of Dream Trippers: Global Daoism and the Predicament of Modern Spirituality]
Edward Bruner Prize for the best book in the Anthropology of Tourism by the American Anthropological Association (Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group)
The Civil Sphere in East Asia
2019 The Civil Sphere in East Asia (co-edited with Jeffrey Alexander, Agnes Ku and Sunwoong Park), Cambridge University Press, 320 pages.
Chinese Religious Life
2012 Chinese Religious Life (co-edited with Glenn Shive and Philip Wickeri), Oxford University Press, 296 pages.
2014 Zhongguoren de zongjiao shenghuo (中國人的宗教生活), HKU Press. [Chinese edition of Chinese Religious Life]
Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity
2012 Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity (co-edited with Liu Xun), University of California Press, 404 pages. (Available in Open Access)
宗樹人 (David A. Palmer)、劉迅 (Liu Xun) 合編： 《二十世紀道教：永恆與現代之間》。台北：新文豐出版公司。 Forthcoming, Chinese translation of Daoism in the 20th Century. Taipei: Shin Wen-feng Press.
The Religious Question in Modern China
2011 The Religious Question in Modern China (co-authored with Vincent Goossaert), University of Chicago Press, 464 pages.
Levenson Award for the best book on Modern China by the Association for Asian Studies; PROSE Award for the best academic book on religion by the American Publishers’ Association – The Religious Question in Modern China
2012 La question religieuse en Chine, CNRS Editions. [French edition of The Religious Question in Modern China]
Qigong Fever: Body, Science and Utopia in China
2007 Qigong Fever: Body, Science and Utopia in China, Columbia University Press, 320 pages.
Francis L. K. Hsu award for best book on East Asian Anthropology by the American Anthropological Association (Society for East Asian Anthropology)
2005 La fièvre du qigong : guérison, religion et politique en Chine, Editions de l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales. [French edition of Qigong Fever]
Forthcoming Books
[David A. Palmer and Martin M. H. Tse. Civil Buddhism, Martial Daoism: The Jiao Festivals of the Guangdong Village of Xicun]. Taipei: Shin Wen-feng Press. 350 pp. + 300 pp of ritual manuscript reproductions.
Realism and Constructivism in Science, Religion and Society (with Mike Brownnutt). Book manuscript in editing stage.
Selected recent and forthcoming articles and book chapters
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